The spectacular metamorphosis of the Frits Philips Concert Hall in Eindhoven is nearing completion.

The renowned designer duo Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe got together with Philips Ambient Experience Design to design a concert hall that, with the help of lighting, technology and design, is completely in tune with the needs of its visitors.

The festive re-opening is on Saturday, 9 October.

In the middle of Eindhoven now stands the absolute music centre of the future, a place where lighting, design and technology are integrated innovatively, without it becoming merely a high-tech building.

Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe of Geldrop designed both the interior and the exterior around the central idea of the Concert Hall as a meeting place.

Together with Philips Ambient Experience Design, Hypsos and Rapenburg Plaza, the duo produced an exceptional composition of light, image and specially developed technology.

Take for example the way concert-goers are led intuitively from foyer to concert hall by way of subtle lighting signs which move from a high-tech wall and over the ceiling.

Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe designed every detail especially for this project, from the enormous glass façade to the foyers and furniture, from the working wear to the crockery.

The most remarkable change is to the main entrance of the new Concert Hall.

The redesign was made possible due in part to a contribution from the European Fund for Regional Development within the framework of OP-Zuid and contributions from the SRE Regional Fund, Brainport Development, Province Noord-Brabant and Gemeente Eindhoven.

Comments

Personally not a fan, it’s like part of the 90s threw up in there… I think maybe next time they should minimise their palette so it’s not so disorientating and busy. It reminds me of a mall.

mmm

In fact, it is in a mall. A very 90's rossi-postmodernist shopping-galery. The interior is now probably better than it was before, but it seems very random indeed - rather high on flashiness and low on ideas. But maybe Memphis is the way to handle this context - if you can't deny it amplify it over-the-top?

A fine example that Product designers should stay with product design. As architects shouldn't design products (that includes you mr. ben van berkel).
There are nice elements but overall it just doesn't add up and could have been way better with one of the many great interior designers in the netherlands.